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Photo, Print, Drawing Photographs of chairs designed for the 1948 International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design

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Title

  • Photographs of chairs designed for the 1948 International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design

Summary

  • Photographs created and used to design, fabricate, and document chairs for competition and production. Images show experimental and prototypical chairs, molds for chairs, and chair production: La Chaise, plastic upright chairs (with wood legs, metal rod legs, and spider pedestal base), armchairs (with metal rod base, pedestal base, and rocker base), and the minimum chair; component parts for chairs, including metal bases produced from stamped aluminum or steel; and graphic specification panels for chairs. Some images show Charles Eames, Ray Eames, and Eames Office staff at work. Includes images related to other projects: models of display windows for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago, Illinois: one to showcase new Eames furniture designs, and the other to publicize the first "Good Design" exhibition program sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Merchandise Mart, Chicago; porch awning for Billy Wilder house, and site and models for new house for Billy Wilder, Beverly Hills, California; office interior for Philip Dunne at the Twentieth Century Fox studio, Los Angeles, California; also includes a few images of ceiling number graphics for the Macy 4-Room Display; models for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial competition; Charles Kratka's Art Director's Club project; designs for packaging for Budweiser beer; aluminum information panels; and the galaxy light fixture designed by Don Albinson and used in the "For Modern Living" exhibition at the Detroit Museum of Art.

Names

  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames, designer
  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames, photographer
  • University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Engineering, designer
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), funder/sponsor

Created / Published

  • 1946-1957.

Headings

  • -  Office of Charles and Ray Eames--People--1940-1960
  • -  Carson Pirie Scott--Exhibitions & displays--Illinois--Chicago--1940-1960
  • -  Dunne, Philip,--1908-1992--Homes & haunts--California--Los Angeles
  • -  Wilder, Billy,--1906-2002--Homes & haunts--California--Beverly Hills
  • -  Eames chairs--1940-1960
  • -  Eames plastic armchair--1940-1960
  • -  Eames plastic side chair--1940-1960
  • -  La Chaise (Eames chair)--1940-1960
  • -  Exhibitions--1940-1960
  • -  Competition entries--1940-1960
  • -  Furniture industry--California--Los Angeles--1940-1960
  • -  Graphic design--1940-1960
  • -  Architectural models--1940-1960
  • -  Models--1940-1960
  • -  Offices--California--Los Angeles--1940-1960
  • -  Awnings--California--Beverly Hills--1940-1960
  • -  Window displays--1940-1960

Format Headings

  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1960.

Genre

  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1960

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Organized into 13 LOT subdivisions.
  • -  Finding aid available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
  • -  LOT title devised; few photographs have individual capitons.
  • -  Eames office inventory location: Drawer 03.A.03.
  • -  Corresponding negatives in series LC-E12 and LC-E22.
  • -  Chairs for competition designed in collaboration with Department of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • -  Most of these photographs were taken by Charles Eames, Ray Eames or other Eames Office staff members, including Charles Kratka.
  • -  Office of Charles and Ray Eames located in Venice, Los Angeles, California.
  • -  Competition sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, and Museum Design Project, Inc.
  • -  Some project information from Neuhart's Eames design: the work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames, 1989, and Kaufmann's Prize designs for modern furniture, 1950.
  • -  Forms part of the collection known as the "Work of Charles and Ray Eames."
  • -  Gift; Ray Eames; 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:150).

Medium

  • 356 photographic prints : b&w ; 4x5 in. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13169 (G) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 98510298

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Designer, Los Angeles. Department Of Engineering University Of California, and Funder/Sponsor Museum Of Modern Art, Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, photographer. Photographs of chairs designed for theInternational Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design. Beverly Hills California Los Angeles, 1946. to 1957. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/98510298/.

APA citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, D., University Of California, L. A. D. O. E. & Museum Of Modern Art, F., Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, photographer. (1946) Photographs of chairs designed for theInternational Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design. Beverly Hills California Los Angeles, 1946. to 1957. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/98510298/.

MLA citation style:

Office Of Charles And Ray Eames, Designer, Los Angeles. Department Of Engineering University Of California, and Funder/Sponsor Museum Of Modern Art, photographer by Office Of Charles And Ray Eames. Photographs of chairs designed for theInternational Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design. to 1957. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/98510298/>.